DVL2 Antibody – Rabbit

This gene encodes a member of the dishevelled (dsh) protein family. The vertebrate dsh proteins have approximately 40% amino acid sequence similarity with Drosophila dsh. This gene encodes a 90-kD protein that undergoes posttranslational phosphorylation to form a 95-kD cytoplasmic protein, which may play a role in the signal transduction pathway mediated by multiple Wnt proteins. The mechanisms of dishevelled function in Wnt signaling are likely to be conserved among metazoans. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

DVL2: a protein in the WNT/planar cell polarity (PCP) signaling pathway. Dvl2-deficient mice indicate that Dvl2 is essential for normal cardiac morphogenesis, somite segmentation and neural tube closure. Transduces the Wnt signal by interacting with the cytoplasmic Axin complex. Dvl and Axin each contain a DIX domains, which mediate their dynamic polymerization. The Dvl-Axin interaction is essential for Wnt signaling. Interacts through its PDZ domain with the C-terminal regions of VANGL1 and VANGL2. Interacts with Dixin and Rac. There is functional redundancy between Dvl1 and Dvl2 in some phenotypes.

Protein type: Adaptor/scaffold; Motility/polarity/chemotaxis

Chromosomal Location of Human Ortholog: 17p13.1

Cellular Component: apical part of cell; cytoplasm; plasma membrane; cytoplasmic vesicle; clathrin-coated endocytic vesicle; nucleus; cytosol

Molecular Function: identical protein binding; protein domain specific binding; protein binding; protein self-association; frizzled binding

Biological Process: segment specification; transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter; positive regulation of JNK activity; Wnt receptor signaling pathway; convergent extension involved in neural plate elongation; Wnt receptor signaling pathway, planar cell polarity pathway; positive regulation of transcription, DNA-dependent; heart development; neural tube closure; positive regulation of transcription factor activity; Wnt receptor signaling pathway through beta-catenin; positive regulation of protein amino acid phosphorylation